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New Legal Threat To GMail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-you-can't-make-up dept.

wellington writes "Google is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service. Independent International Investment Research, a British company that specialises in research and has several leading City investment banks as clients, argues that it launched "G-Mail web based email" in May 2002."

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  1. Repeat after me: There's no such thing as "IP" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is nothing called "Intellectual Property".

    Either you say:
    Trademark
    Copyright
    Patent

    But "Intellectual Property" is not a term you can use intelligently, only as a way to further the company propaganda-machine. This example clearly shows it is not suitable for intelligent readership. I heard this from RMS last time he visited Norway.